French mercenary widely blamed for...

PRESIDENTS'S DEATH. A

December 14, 1989

- JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — PRESIDENTS'S DEATH. A French mercenary widely blamed for killing the leader of the Comoros Islands said the president was accidentally shot by his own bodyguard during an army attack, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Bob Denard, who heads the mercenary-led Presidential Guard on the islands, said President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahmane was fatally shot on Nov. 26 during an assault by army troops, The Star newspaper reported from the Comoros capital of Moroni.